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| Govt. need to attract top hospitals to J&K ? | | | Apart from widescale death and destruction militancy related violence caused in Jammu an Kashmir during the last over two decades it has markedly caused major health and psychic disorders forcing people in the troubled state to spend major portion of their income and resources on health care. It is not people only in the Kashmir valley who have fallen prey to physical,mental and psychic problems majority among the displaced people from the valley and from various remote areas of the Jammu region too have become victims of diseases and ailments which used to be rare in the valley.Medical experts,who have carried out a detailed survey on the impact of stress on women,have found that stress has given rise to polycystic ovary syndrome among women which has resulted in growing rate of infertility.They have also found that hypertension impaired tolerance type-2 diabetes mellitus,coronary artery diseases,dementia and renal failures hasve been on increase since 1990.
The researchers in the sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical sciences,Soura, and Jammu based medical experts have found that over the years not only the cross fire between the security forces and the militants but gun,grenade and bomb attacks besides extortion,kidnappings,killings and forced marriages have been inst rumental for high incidence of diabetes,hyspertension,cardiac and renal problems. Those experts who talk of increasing level of lack of mental poise, growing dementia and Alzheimer's disease because of militancy induced stress say that prior to the rise of militancy related activities and violence such physical and mental disorders were very uncommon.These experts say that prior to the advent of militancy the total expenses on medicines,mainly Allopathic,would range between Rs.65 lakh and Rs.one crore per year in Jammu and Kashmir.The figures on annual expenses on medicines per year during the last 15 years has gone up to Rs.five crores.
Another report said that till 1990 the number of private nursing homes and hospitals in the state could be counted on finger tips but the number of these institutions has increased 20 times during the last 20 years.It is said one can find small nursing homes,catering to the needs of the ailing people,having been set up in vicinities and in bylanes in the twin capitals of the state and a stage has reached when these nursing homes have been opened at district and tehsil headquarters.The report says that as far as the number of clinical laboratories and diagnostic centres,besides X-ray,ultrasound clinics is concerned Jammu and Kashmir is on the top of the list of such clinics in the rest of the country.Another survey has revealed that five to 15 per cent of the total montly resources are being spent on medicines and medical treatment by people belonging to the displaced families from the Kashmir valley.And those in the valley spend about five to 10 per cent on medicines and medical treatment.It is usually believed that Kashmii migrants,living in Jammu,Udhampur and Nagrota and in other states spend more on medicines than on milk and mutton.Experts rightly plead in favour of Government financial and technical support to the registered and well designed private nursing homes so that the cost of medical treatment did not remain beyond the reach of common people.They also have suggested to the Government to introduce health insurance scheme for the people of the state on the pattern one finds in the USA,the UK,Australia and other foreign countries.In addition to this superspeciality private nursing homes,operating in various states,be assisted in setting up their units in Jammu and Kashmir so that people were not forced to receive treatment from these inst itutions only after visiting Chandigarh,Delhi and Mumbai. |
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